PARCO MUSEO QUINTO MARTINI SEANO

At Seano, where Quinto Martini (1908–1990) was born and raised, there is an extensive park museum in which 36 sculptures and works in bronze, executed between 1931 and 1988, illustrate his artistic journey, evoking in many cases the local people and life in the area. Inaugurated in 1988, it is an anthological and biographical work — with an intimate feel but at the same time intended for the public.

The sculptor himself believed in and actively participated in the founding of the park, making above all a choice between the sculptures that he considered more important and suitable for the location, carefully following the smelting process, assisting the architect, Ettore Chelazzi, in the task of arranging the sculptures in the open (on brick pedestals), thus redefining what had initially been a simple triangular field between the old village and the new urban expansion. Close to the park stands the artist’s home, which is in the near future expected to open as a historic house museum.

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A project dedicated entirely to the art of the 20th century in Tuscany: exhibitions and events, but also a guide and a multimedia application for telling the story of a region and of a century through a thousand voices